Maxwell Perspective Current Issue

Winter 2019

A selection
of articles from the current issue of the Maxwell Perspective magazine is available below. To receive a PDF version or a copy of this (or any) issue of the Perspective, e-mail Dana Cooke.

Pondering the Big Questions in Public Administration It had been 50 years since Maxwell hosted Minnowbrook, an influential
conference of public administration faculty who explored dilemmas in the volatile 1960s. This summer, Maxwell convened an anniversary conference on the same hallowed ground. Related . . .

Dwight Waldo Started It All In 1968, a Maxwell professor with no patience for the “dispassionate bureaucrat” model assembled young scholars
to tackle the era’s upheavals.

Message from the Dean: Uniquely QualifiedMinnowbrook a very important example of the many ways public administration looks to Maxwell when exploring its path forward.

Deep-Seated Sense of Justice Few causes matter more to Marvin Lender than social justice — the focus of a new Syracuse University
center bearing the Lender name. Also . . . The Bagel Boom. How Lender’s Bagels became a household name.

Voices at the Table The inaugural Policy Camp introduced undergraduate students of color to career options in policy — and to the impact bolstered racial
and cultural diversity can have across the public sector.

Global Focus The innovative IR/PR master’s degree, meant to serve careers in public diplomacy, is now 10 years old.

Summer Plans Funding from Jon Ben Snow Foundation helps CCE students advance their Action Plans during the months between the semesters.

Honoring Astrid Economist Mary Lovely is based in Washington, serving as Maxwell’s first Merget Fellow. She is also a China-trade expert whose insights are
suddenly much in demand.

Bill Duncombe’s Notes Though he is gone, a respected and much-loved public administration professor lives on in a published compilation of his legendary
lecture notes.